set in opposition
Example Sentences
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Mr Brilliant says Harrods’ managers were set in opposition to each other and then expected to keep a watchful eye on their rivals.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
History tells us that Elizabeth and Mary were cousins set in opposition by their clashing religions, their royal parentage and their mutual desire to rule Britannia.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2011
There is a realm of Social Objectivity, a realm of organization, activity, purpose and power, not physical in character, not mechanical in nature, which is set in opposition to individual will, purpose, power, and activity.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
The New Dispensation is sometimes set in opposition to the Old, and Christ is represented as teaching a less rigid morality than that of Moses and the prophets.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd
A lesser social enthusiasm was set in opposition to a greater, and the result was necessarily full of moral contradictions.
From Equality by Edward Bellamy
